Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the advice of the local native cabinet but also without their advice or against their advice, is the feature most open to question. In British eyes it means that each white Governor can be trusted to allow each native cabinet all proper latitude and scope toward development in India for the first time of representative democracy, while vigilantly curbing any cabinet activities of an unfortunate or subversive nature...
...province cabinet-just as the Emperor himself may act only on the advice of the British Cabinet. Last week every British Governor of an Indian province in which the Gandhi Party has a majority refused to give the required pledge. Therefore, in provinces comprising over two-thirds of British India, no Governor was able to assemble a cabinet commanding a majority. The new legislatures do not meet until summer, but at their first meetings the logical thing will be for the Gandhi majority to vote down the minority cabinet of the Governor. This will lead, as "The only real alternative...
...government ever gave so much time and thought to a single problem as Britain gave to India during the three Round-table Conferences, the sittings of the Joint Select Committee of Parliament and the interminable debates in the House of Commons that preceded passage of the India Bill in its final form. The controversy shook the Conservative Party to its foundations; Stanley Baldwin staked his political future upon pushing the new Constitution through...
...unless some miracle of persuasion occurs, officials here fear that their efforts of the past ten years may be wasted and that their hopes of a peaceful, contented India will be shattered...
...votes cast in the U. S. about two-thirds were for Roosevelt & Garner; of votes cast in India about two-thirds were for the party of Gandhi & Nehru...